I set out the materials with the book "Snowballs" by Lois Ehlert to inspire some snowman creations! We ended up getting some creative snow creatures such as a snow pig and snow jelly fish lol.

Another good book to set out with at a centre like this is "The Biggest Snowman Ever" by Steven Kroll.

Patterning with Pipe Cleaner Snowflakes

This was a super popular centre the whole week!

I set out blue, white and shiny blue/silver pony beads with pipe cleaners shaped into snowflakes. To make the snowflakes I just cut a pipe cleaners in half, held 3 pipe cleaners together and twisted them in the middle a few times. Then I stretched out the arms to make it look like a snowflakes.

The example above was made by one of my little kiddos. He impressed me by making a different pattern on each arm: ABC, AB, AAB, AAABBB, AABB and ABCD. He isn't a kid that chooses centres like this very often so I was so happy to see him engaged here!

Snowflake Count & Make

I set out these snowflakes with rhinestones and had the kids count the number of rhinestones and make the number in the ice cube tray with snowflake erasers. I also told them that if they put the snowflakes in order from 1-10 they will discover a pattern. So some kids were also busy trying to figure out the pattern :)

Can You Make a Snowman?

Cotton Balls Edition

This was a surprisingly popular centre!

The kids were asked to fill the water bottle snowman with cotton balls using only the tweezers. This was a great fine motor centre and I also put sand timers out so that they could measure how long it took them to fill the water bottle.

ABC Tracing Book

I finally finished up this little project I had been working on. Some of my JK's need letter formation and drawing practice and the the alphabet tracing book I had out in the fall/winter was popular but I felt it was time for something new. So I whipped up one of my own! If you are interested in checking it out on TPT you can click on the image above :)

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ABOUT ME

Hi there! My name is Yukari. I teach FDK (Full Day Kindergarten) in Ontario, Canada! I love creating resources and activities for our classroom that target specific needs and make learning fun and engaging.. and I love sharing them with fellow educators!

I hope you grab a cup of coffee, click through a couple of posts and find some activities and ideas you can use in your own classroom!